Ms. Beals moved through just about every inch of the floor space, shifting dynamics with impressive subtlety.

But he mixed styles here with impressive subtlety, perhaps because the task he had set himself was to place the music completely at the service of the texts.

Mr. Lasiter's lighting suggests the passage of time and shifts in tone with impressive subtlety.

Sometimes they are of comic-book simplicity (drumming fingers for running feet, brutal sforzatos as gunshots); others, however, offer impressive subtlety and grace, especially the high-pitched, lolling gentleness at the end.

The dramatic pivot of the movie is Calvin's crisis of values, which is played with impressive subtlety in a context defined by the broadness of melodrama and slapstick humor.

He has the role of a lifetime here, but he is a commanding presence of affecting modesty, performing this star turn with impressive subtlety.

Wilson's great achievement as president was to persuade Americans, with impressive subtlety, to accept radical economic reforms and internationalism.

"Black Widow," set to an atmospheric score by Marjorie Whylie, was an enjoyably gruesome dance for a lethal female spider and her male prey, whose gradual ensnarement is conveyed with impressive subtlety.

So does the portrayal of Taylor by Steven Rattazzi, an actor of impressive subtlety, who echoes a choreographer at rehearsal.